Posts by Blake Eskin

In response to a divisive memo by former Google engineer James Damore, another former Google engineer named Yonatan Zunger wrote that Damore fundamentally misunderstood the role of an engineer: Engineering...

Over the past several days, I’ve kept seeing this explanation of a scholarly paper on the epidemiology of disinformation. (Thanks to Laura Hazard Owen at Nieman Lab for first putting...

Journalists and designers tell stories, but we also read, listen, watch, play… So periodically, we’ll be rounding up a few stories that Journalism + Design faculty are looking at, listening...

Google and Facebook are the two biggest media institutions in America today. Neither likes to be called a media company, but together they command the lion’s share of online advertising...

We live in the information age, but modern life has been transformed by the standardized shipping container as much as it has by the internet. The discipline of supply chain...

The first in a three-course sequence that introduces students to journalism and its crucial role in democratic society. Through real, project-based work, students will research, report, and present news stories while considering how to best engage an audience and have impact. An introduction to human-centered design practices and to the complexity and competitiveness of the 21st-century media ecosystem.

The first in a three-course sequence that introduces students to journalism and its crucial role in democratic society. Through real, project-based work, students will research, report, and present news stories while considering how to best engage an audience and have impact. An introduction to human-centered design practices and to the complexity and competitiveness of the 21st-century media ecosystem.